Dr. Benjamin Broadribb

YouTube video by Britcom Fan Maid Marian And Her Merry Men - Pancake Day

It wouldn't be P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-Pancake Day without Maid Marian and Her Merry Men flooding my social media feed. #PancakeDay

Today’s Extra Credit focuses on Valerie Clayman Pye’s article ““I have thee not, and yet I see thee still”: Shakespeare’s Globe, Augmented Reality, and Actor Training”. Check out these open-access resources to go along with this open-access article!

📰: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Today’s Extra Credit focuses on Linhan (Shumo) Gan’s article “Bound by Belief: The Collapse of Bushido and the Rise of Faith in Ran”. Check out these open-access resources to go along with this open-access article!

📰: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

This is the official Bluesky account of the World Shakespeare Congress, taking place in Verona from 20 to 26 July 2026 #wsc2026 #verona #shakespeare

Today’s Extra Credit focuses on Emily MacLeod’s article “Editing Margaret: Theatrical and Filmic Cuts in Much Ado about Nothing”. Check out these open-access resources to go along with this open-access article! All resources are included in the link in our bio.

📰: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Thanks Remy - really pleased to have your review in this issue 🙂

Latest review dropped of the inspiring @wastelandtheatre.bsky.social performance of "Richard the Ghoul"! Thankful for @benbroadribb.bsky.social for his editorial eye on this piece, and the rest of the Shax Bulletin team for their help! Shakespeare theatre is everywhere folks!

2/ ... Elizabeth Klett, Eleanor Glasspoole, Noel Sloboda, and @edelsemple.bsky.social. Thanks to all the authors for their brilliant work. If you'd be interested in contributing a performance review to a future @shaxbull.bsky.social issue, get in touch here or email SBPerformance@marybaldwin.edu 🙂

SB 43.3 is fully Open Access - no account or institutional access required! 🎉 Another fantastic issue including performance reviews from Justin B. Hopkins, Burak Urucu, Joan Raube-Wilson, @remywrites.bsky.social, Laurie Higgins, Connie Newstead, Sheila T. Cavanagh, @terribourus.bsky.social ... /1

NEW ISSUE KLAXON: Shakespeare Bulletin 43.3 is now published via Project Muse! This open access issue features articles on Margaret's presentation in Much Ado; an analysis of bushido in Kurosawa's Ran; and a pedagogy-oriented exploration of a Globe app for actor-training.
📰: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56353

Okay, campers, rise and shine, and don't forget your booties 'cause it's cold out there today... #GroundhogDay

Desperately sad news. I'm incredibly grateful for all the brilliant performances Catherine O'Hara leaves behind.

LAST CHANCE! Extended submission deadline expires 15 January. Get your abstracts in this week for AAS 2026 & please spread the word!

Online participation is an option 💻

An image of GTA avatars created by Dipo Ola, Gareth Turkington, Pinny Grylls, ParTebMosMir, and Sam Crane standing around a limo, with the text “Spanning from the lock-downs of early 2021 until their online performance in summer 2022, Grand Theft Hamlet follows Crane, Oosterveen, and Pinny Grylls (documentary maker, co-director, and Crane's partner) as they cast, direct, and stage Hamlet in the surreal, chaotic sprawl of Los Santos, GTA's glittering, gun-riddled vision of Los Angeles.” over an orange background with the SB logo.

Emily Rowe reviews a Project 1961, Grasp the Nettle Films, and Park Pictures production Grand Theft Hamlet, dir. Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane

🎭: www.undiscoveredcountryfilm.com

📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/974953

📷: Production still courtesy of Sam Crane

An image of Hamlet (Doug Harvey), Yorick (Geoffrey Barnes), and Ophelia (Austin Tichenor), with the text “Overall, with The Comedy of Hamlet!, the RSC have created a smart, fun, and funny take on Shakespeare's tragedy. This production had bags of charm and more gags than you can shake a jester's marotte at.” over an orange background with the SB logo.

Edel Semple reviews Reduced Shakespeare Company’s 2025 production of The Comedy of Hamlet! (a prequel), written and directed by Austin Tichenor and Reed Martin

🎭: www.reducedshakespeare.com/productions/...

📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/974952

📷: Meg Moore

The text “Ultimately, this production offered an engaging theatrical experience that accentuated King Lear's existential themes and provided fresh interpretations of many of its characters, thanks to the idiosyncratic performances of a talented ensemble and an adaptation that foregrounded its rash and incomprehensible main character. But, in speeding up the plot and rushing to the end, the adaptation often flattened the complexity of Shakespeare's great tragedy.” over an orange background with the SB logo.

Bernard Krumm reviews Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company, The Shed, and Fiery Angel’s 2024 production of King Lear, dir. Rob Ashford, Kenneth Branagh, and Lucy Skilbeck.

🎭: www.theshed.org/program/302-...

📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/974951

An image of Pericles (Zach Wyatt) lifting Thaisa (Leah Haile), with the text “Of all the plays in the canon of what the program calls "this greatest of writers," it's hard to imagine one better suited to celebrate an exhilarating transoceanic reunion of two great theater companies.” over an orange background with the SB logo.

Terri Bourus reviews Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s 2024 production of Pericles, dir. Tamara Harvey

🎭: www.chicagoshakes.com/productions/...

📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/974950

📷: Johan Persson

Also taking place 24-26 June 2026, the 9th Biennial SAMEMES Conference at @unifr.bsky.social with a theme of "Tolerance and Dissent". The CFP can be found here, and also closes on Thursday 15 January. @samemes.bsky.social #SAMEMES2026 #Shakespeare #EarlyModern

Congratulations to you both - looks like a fantastic volume! 👏👏👏

Predramatic Theatre This co-authored book offers a new and contemporary approach to pre-modern drama texts and performance practice.

Happy New Year and a pretty stupendous start to 2026 from my perspective as Predramatic Theatre -my co-authored book with @gregmw4.bsky.social - was published by Palgrave on Friday!

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Very kindly, our reader said of the book :-

Also taking place 24-26 June 2026, the 9th Biennial SAMEMES Conference at @unifr.bsky.social with a theme of "Tolerance and Dissent". The CFP can be found here, and also closes on Thursday 15 January. @samemes.bsky.social #SAMEMES2026 #Shakespeare #EarlyModern

Happy new year! Sharing a couple of CFPs for 2026 conferences that are closing soon. First up, the 2nd International CIRCE Conference taking place at @usaloficial.bsky.social and online 24-26 June. CFP closes Thursday 15 January. #CIRCE #Shakespeare #EarlyModern circe.uv.es/congress-4-cfp

The text “Eventually, I settled amongst Santa Cruz Shakespeare's eager devotees for an evening of cross-generational hijinks and romantic intrigue—the former being quite appropriate, given Santa Cruz Shakespeare's summer season title and theme, "Generations." I left, however, reflecting on the poignancy of how temporary progress can seem from generation to generation, and how hard it can be to believe in change from those in power after they've shown us who they are at their core—or, at what seems like their core.” over an orange background with the SB logo.

Rachel L. Spencer reviews Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s 2024 production of As You Like It, dir. Carey Perloff

🎭: santacruzshakespeare.org

📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/974947

An image of Malvolio (Billy Morton) in a suit holding a letter up in the air, with the text ““[...] the actors were directed to play off the audience response, so rather than being thrown off by audience sighs, groans, and laughter, they returned the energy. That energy—inspired by Nicholls, expressed through his hardworking cast members, and at the performance we attended (and perhaps depending on the weather) reciprocated by appreciative audience members—can help turn an ordinary evening in Oxford into an extraordinary one.” over an orange background with the SB logo.

Zola P. Feasel and Joseph F. Stephenson reviews Wild Goose Theatre’s 2024 production of Twelfth Night, dir. Paul Alex Nicholls

🎭: www.oxfordcastleandprison.co.uk/events/event...

📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/974949

📷: Phil Morton (Twelfth Night)

An image of the Nurse (Irmina St Catherine) and Juliet (Cherie Gordon) using British Sign Language, with the text “Graeae's version of Romeo and Juliet was my first experience of watching a complete ensemble of Deaf, disabled, and neurodivergent actors presenting an accessible version of a canonical play [...] watching this production estranged me from my usual viewing habits, and forced me to renegotiate for myself a new way of accessing this most regularly performed play.” over an orange background with the SB logo.

Frank Clarke reviews Graeae Theatre Company’s 2024 production of Romeo and Juliet, dir. Jenny Sealey

🎭: graeae.org/event/romeo-...

📰: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

📷: Patch Dolan

An image of Lady Capulet (Fran Tapia) clinging to the body of dead Tybalt (Alina Collins Maldonado), with Lord Capulet (Todd Scofield), the Prince (Deidra LaWan Starnes), and the Nurse (Luz Nicolas) in the background, with the text “This production offered a different sort of tragedy that shifted attention from the usual focus on the star-crossed lovers to the failing of a community, as evidenced by its inability to mourn for its dead children” over an orange background with the SB logo.

Che Floy reviews Folger Theatre’s 2024 production of Romeo and Juliet, dir. Raymond O. Caldwell

🎭: www.folger.edu/whats-on/rom...

📰: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

📷: Erika Nizborski

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.

The brief life—and untimely death—of Hamnet Shakespeare Though little is known about the life of William Shakespeare's only son, historians say his premature death may have shaped the bard's most famous works.

Folks - I am quoted in National Geographic on #Hamnet #Shakespeare!!! 🤩 It energises me to continue research on Shakespeare biofiction with @kscheil.bsky.social and editing our 50 chapter Shakespeare biofiction Handbook - out with Palgrave in 2026!
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

An image of Edward II (Daniel Evans) laying on the dead body of Gaveston (Eloka Ivo), with the text “The deaths of Gaveston and Edward were given parallel brutal treatment, depicting a world in which people are tortured and killed for sexual choices” over an orange background with the SB logo.

Laurie Maguire reviews Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2025 production of Edward II, dir. Daniel Raggett

🎭: www.rsc.org.uk/edward-ii/

📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/974945

📷: Helen Murray

An image of Macbeth (Che Kem) and members of the ensemble, with the text “Norzizi's willingness to take liberties with both Macbeth and randai certainly yielded wonders rich and strange” over an orange background with the SB logo.

Adib Faiz reviews Randai Macbeth, a 2025 production by Traditional Performing Arts Centre (PuTRA), National Academy of Arts, Culture and Heritage (ASWARA), adapted and directed by Norzizi Zulkafli

📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/974944

📷: Izzat Fazil